Harry Truman relied on the support of local business to fuel his race for the presidency. Democrat Tom Pendergast was a patron of his haberdashery after the First World War and and then ushered him into the position as judge of the county court in Jackson County, and then and a local car dealer named Edgar Hinde suggested another way of upping his political game. Specifically, by joining the Ku Klux Klan. Hinde himself was a member, and even offered to pay Truman's $10 membership fee. Around that time, thanks to the success of early documentary Birth Of A Nation, there were around five million members, and wielded significant political clout he never went to a meeting, but was still technically a member.
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